{"id":1993,"date":"2008-07-03T17:15:06","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T21:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=1993"},"modified":"2008-07-04T04:57:55","modified_gmt":"2008-07-04T08:57:55","slug":"ap-cant-tell-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1993","title":{"rendered":"AP can’t tell the truth"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been boycotting Associated Press along with the rest of blogs since they got uppity (uh-oh, is using the word “uppity” showing my bigotry?) a few weeks back, but I’m breaking the boycott for this piece of crap reporting from Deb Reichman<\/a>;<\/p>\n

President Bush helped break ground Thursday for a new military medical center to replace Walter Reed hospital, whose reputation was soiled by allegations of shoddy care for war veterans.<\/p>\n

Bush didn’t talk about the institution’s problems, instead lauding the work of the military medical staff.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How much is wrong with that few lines? Walter Reed was scheduled to be closed more than a year before Washington Post’s equally shoddy story<\/a> about conditions there. That’s one of the reasons it was being closed – Walter Reed is located in one of the worst neighborhoods in DC and the entire area is filthy. There is no room for Walter Reed to grow and improve to meet current needs and the population is not suitable to employment in a hospital environment.<\/p>\n

Walter Reed was busted in the Washington Post for their transient barracks – their out-patient facilities, not because of “shoddy care for war veterans” as Ms. Reichman writes. The care for soldiers at Walter Reed has never been criticized successfully.<\/p>\n

When the Bush Administration tried to speed building the new facilities at Bethesda after Walter Reed’s problems, it was Congressional Democrats, my Congressman Chris Van Hollen specifically, who blocked those efforts. Read the post I wrote<\/a> at the time. Van Hollen opposed speeding the process because he wanted federal money dedicated to improving roads along which he and the other snotty elitists in country club Bethesda drove their Mercedes SUVs .<\/p>\n

Why would President Bush talk about the problems that have been rectified over a year ago and will be cured when the new facility is built? Reidman is a tool and a hack – but then so is the ASSociated Press.<\/p>\n

I know some of you have more to add about the Walter Reed thing. Have at it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been boycotting Associated Press along with the rest of blogs since they got uppity (uh-oh, … AP can’t tell the truth<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-walter-reed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}